Text gets chapped off on top.

[Vinny Onelli]

Hi,
Installed f15 gnome, and since then periodically while using a portion
of text gets chapped off on top. I waited while thanking that it may be
correct through update, but I ham not sure if this problem is know. I
found that I need to reboot in order to correct it.
Any one know how to correct it?.

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/06/2011 12:20 PM, Vinny Onelli wrote:
> Hi,
> Installed f15 gnome, and since then periodically while using a portion
> of text gets chapped off on top. I waited while thanking that it may be
> correct through update, but I ham not sure if this problem is know. I
> found that I need to reboot in order to correct it.
> Any one know how to correct it?.

What graphics card are you using?  If it's either ATI or nVidia are you 
using the OSS drivers or the binary blobs from the OEM.  If nVidia, and 
you're using the proprietary drivers, did you get them from nVidia or 
are you using the kmod/akmod version?  We need more info to help you and 
off the top of my head this is what we're most likely to need.

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:20:37 -0400
Vinny Onelli wrote:
> Hi,
> Installed f15 gnome, and since then periodically while using a portion
> of text gets chapped off on top. I waited while thanking that it may be
> correct through update, but I ham not sure if this problem is know. I
> found that I need to reboot in order to correct it.
> Any one know how to correct it?.

Does it look like this?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=501426

If so, you may have the same bug I see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708529

I only see this in gnome 3. I haven't noticed any
corruption of text when running my normal fvwm
session without all the 3d compositing of everything.

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 07/06/2011 03:20 PM, Vinny Onelli wrote:
> Hi,
> Installed f15 gnome, and since then periodically while using a portion
> of text gets chapped off on top. I waited while thanking that it may be
> correct through update, but I ham not sure if this problem is know. I
> found that I need to reboot in order to correct it.
> Any one know how to correct it?.

I see text corruption in gnome-shell too, sometimes. I'm not aware of a 
fix or bug report, though...

- Mike